Cyrtochilum insculptum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin
Column and Lip Detail Another Angle Photos by Guido Deburghgraeve ©
Common Name The Lance Cyrtochilum [refers to the lip]
Flower Size 1.5" [3.8 cm]
Found in Loja Ecuador and Peru on the western slopes in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1900 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly ovoid, close set pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating, leaf-beaaring sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong, tapering in both directions to an acute apex and a narrow conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, erect then twining, vine-like, to more than 39" [100 cm+] long, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence with the widely spaced flowers held in the apical 1/3 on 10" [25 cm] long branches with up to 6 flowers on each branch
Synonyms *Oncidium insculptum Rchb.f. 1872; Oncidium sculptum Rchb. f. ex L. Linden 1873 also listed as Oncidium sculptum L. Linden 1893?
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing ok?; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Oncidium insculptum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 972 Dodson 1984 as Oncidium insculptum drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide/photo ok; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide
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